Category: News

Grazed from SysConMedia.  Author: Gregor Petri.

Unlike in the current hit song “Thinking Out Loud” – where singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran declares his love to last to well into his seventies – it remains to be seen how long the love will last when it comes to “Thinking of Cloud”. IT loves are often short-lived.

In fact so short, we call them hypes. At Gartner we even created the hype cycle, a curve that shows how after a first spark (the technology trigger) many new infatuations quickly reach the peak of unreasonable expectations followed by a period of considerable disillusionment. In that hype cycle cloud computing is now at the beginning of the plateau of productivity (or as Sheeran would say more poetically: the beginning of lasting love)…

Grazed from Ventiv.  Author: Angus Rhodes.

To respond to changes in data storage and growing financial complexity, risk managers are increasingly turning to software. Good programs can automatically monitor company operations, assess threats, and make suggestions for improvements at all hours. The future of risk analysis lies in programs that consolidate large amounts of data and manage the risks of cloud computing.

Accelerating Automation

Companies are increasingly adopting automated risk management products to save money and improve results. Automated risk software requires few workers to operate, reducing job demand and associated payroll costs. It can monitor risks continuously, provide quick reports to management, takes regular records, and guards against after-the-fact data manipulation…

Grazed from Business Insider.  Author: Julie Bort.

When Google announced that its new Photos app would be free and come with  unlimited cloud storage it crossed a line that many in the tech industry had been watching with fear.  Price: $US0.

The cloud computing industry reads like a who’s who of profitable tech giants. But they have been nervously watching a competition started by Amazon, matched by Microsoft, and taken up with gusto by Google.  It’s called “the race to zero.”…

Grazed from GCN.  Author: Kathleen Hickey.
 
Decade-old predictions about the eventual depletion of IPv4 addresses may soon be coming true.  The United States will run out of Internet addresses based on Internet Protocol version 4 by the summer, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.

“The shortage puts companies that maintain their own large and growing Internet presence at the biggest risk, especially providers of cloud-computing services. Such companies could find themselves saddled with unexpected costs, technical problems or simply an inability to serve new customers. Those that aren’t building out their own data centers won’t face the shortage directly, but their online providers likely will,” the WSJ wrote…

Grazed from CIO.  Author: Paul Trotter.

With employees across the company empowered with greater access to technology, the tech expertise inside your business is no longer limited to the IT department. In many businesses, Sales and Marketing, HR and Finance are leading the discussions, with Line of Business (LOB) specific insight into the cloud solutions that can help drive their departments forward.

Yet many companies are struggling to accommodate the often competing views of LOB executives and the IT department, and in some cases there’s a battle for control…

Grazed from TopTechNews.  Author: Jennifer LeClaire.

CRM Relevant Products/Services giant Salesforce has come up with a new way to help enterprises drive more value from big data Relevant Products/Services and tap into more customer insights via its Analytics Cloud. It’s called Salesforce Wave for Big Data and it’s coming to market with an impressive partner list that includes Google, Cloudera, Hortonworks, New Relic, Informatica and Trifacta.

Salesforce Wave for Big Data aims to meet a valid — and big — need in the industry. According to the EMC Digital Universe Study, the digital universe is doubling in size every two years. If you can imagine it, the digital universe will multiply 10-fold between 2013 and 2020, from 4.4 trillion to 44 trillion gigabytes…

Read more from the source @ http://www.toptechnews.com/article/index.php?story_id=13100267EC52

Grazed from Fortune. Author: Heather Clancy.

The explosion last year in venture funding for education technology—more than $1.87 billion invested—wasn’t strictly earmarked for K-12 classrooms, colleges and universities. A fast-growing portion of ed-tech investments is squarely focused on corporate cyberlearning applications as businesses struggle to fill skills gaps and retain talent.

As one vivid illustration, consider the $1.5 billion paid by LinkedIn to acquire Lynda.com, a venerable subscription-based online learning company in business for two decades. Wrote LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner, in a blog post justifying the deal: “I believe we need to transition from a 20th century approach heavily reliant on rote learning to a 21st century curriculum focused on collaboration, critical reasoning and creative problem solving; provide more opportunities for experiential vs. textbook learning; better equip teachers to cater to multiple forms of intelligence vs. simply focusing on math and verbal skills; ensure compassion is taught in every classroom; and provide today’s students with the skills they need to obtain the jobs that are and will be vs. the jobs that once were.”…

Read more from the source @ http://fortune.com/2015/05/28/education-technology-hire-learning/

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Larry Dignan.

Google is betting that it can infuse machine learning throughout its various cloud and mobile products to create an advantage over Apple and other rivals. Whether it’s the launch of Google’s new photo service, Google Now or the new Android, machine learning appears to be an emerging common thread.

Google rolled out Google Photos and the differentiator is going to be search and machine learning to categorize them. The pitch with Google Photo is that the search giant will create a home for photos and videos and use machine learning to "make memories not manage them," said Anil Sabharwal, director of Google Photos…

Grazed from ITWorldCanada. Author: Don Sheppard.

Is cloud computing “business as usual” for the IT project manager (the PM)? Are cloud-based projects really any different from traditional projects? Since cloud computing is now enterprise-class, we can no longer ignore cloud solutions for IT projects. For the PM, however, cloud computing is still relatively new and can be a significant challenge, at least it is here in Canada.

PMs are, or should soon be, deciding how cloud computing can affect the execution of their projects. Does it reduce delivery times? Does it simplify the technical tasks? Does it increase project risk? Does it radically change the infrastructure or application development processes? There can be many questions, and the answers aren’t always straightforward…

Grazed from BetaBoston. Author: Curt Woodward.

Threat Stack, a growing digital security company based in Cambridge, has hired its third chief executive as it seeks to add more customers in the cloud-computing sector. Brian Ahern, formerly the founder and CEO of Foxborough-based security company Industrial Defender, is Threat Stack’s new boss. He replaces Doug Cahill, who was brought on as CEO last year.

At Industrial Defender, Ahearn built a company that helped owners of oil refineries, electric power plants, and other industrial facilities identify and thwart cyberattacks against the software controlling their complicated systems. The company was acquired by Lockheed Martin last year…